ALDOUS HUXLEY

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
ALDOUS HUXLEY
1894 - 1963

"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours
each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in
a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not
only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this
heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up
next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems
to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering
a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."
ALDOUS HUXLEY

"Two thousand pharmacologists and bio-chemists were subsidized. Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug. Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant. All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology. Stability was practically assured."
ALDOUS HUXLEY ( Brave New World )

"Rational and kindly behavior tends to produce good results and these results remain good even when the behavior which produced them was itself produced by a pill."
ALDOUS HUXLEY ( Brave New World Revisited, in Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience, New York, 1977, p. 99 )

"What fun it would be if one didn't have to think about happiness!"
World Controller Mustapha Mond ( Brave New World )